Satiate Your Sweet Tooth With These Under-150-Calorie Late-Night Treats

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Sure, you'd love some one-on-one time with a bowl of ice cream and a spoon, but that late-night treat can pack on over 250 calories. Whether you're craving a sweet, creamy dessert, a homemade cookie, or chocolate-anything, here are healthier ways to indulge so you can enjoy your treat without a dollop of guilt.

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Vegan Chocolate Mousse Cups

These bite-size mousse cups are just 100 calories and contain a secret high protein ingredient.

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Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Made with just four ingredients — fresh cherries, a banana, almond milk, and chocolate chips — this creamy recipe couldn't be easier to whip up. And the flavor? Holy sweet cherry ecstasy! All for 126 calories.

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Dark Chocolate Salted Caramels

These delicious chocolate morsels are way easier to make than they look. Just place sunflower seeds, dates, and sea salt in a food processor. Press into a pan and freeze, then drizzle with melted chocolate and a sprinkle of sea salt. Yum! Each bite is 60 calories.

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No-Bake Vegan Brownies

These no-bake treats not only spare you having to turn on the oven during a hot and humid day, but this sugar-, gluten-, and dairy-free recipe is just 59 calories per fudge-y bite.

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Frozen Banana Pops

This simple dessert-on-a-stick takes five minutes to whip up and four hours in the freezer — each one is just 78 calories.

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Homemade Dole Whip

For just 110 calories, this three-ingredient dessert can be served in a small bowl, the bottom of a pineapple (so Martha Stewart of you!), or in a cup of pineapple juice.

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Red Velvet Cupcakes

While there's still a tablespoon of agave nectar used, the high-sugar content of traditional cupcakes is dramatically reduced in these red velvet Stevia cupcakes. They're only 122 calories per serving, and this recipe only creates four cupcakes total.

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Chocolate Sunbutter Cups

These chocolate gems are 52 calories apiece and offer 1 gram of protein and 0.7 grams of fiber. They take 40 minutes to whip up, and just four ingredients.

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Chocolate-Mousse-Filled Strawberries

This vegan and gluten-free recipe is a much healthier way to satisfy your chocolate strawberry cravings while saving on calories, carbs, and fat. A five-piece serving is only 87 calories.

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Mango Ice Cream

With zero saturated fat or cholesterol and no added sugar, each 150-calorie serving of vegan mango ice cream also offers almost five grams of fiber.

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Frozen Nutty Banana Nibblers

Made with only three ingredients, these frozen banana sandwiches are a low-cal way to indulge when you're craving something cold and sweet. Each bite is about 23 calories, so you can enjoy six delicious bites for about 140 calories.

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Warm, Flourless Chocolate Cake

This treat is gluten-free and made with roasted sweet potatoes, but you'd never even know it. Creamy, chocolatey, and oh-so-decadent, it's hard to believe a serving is under 100 calories.

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Strawberry Banana Creams

Made with a handful of ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen, this healthy version of strawberry cheesecake is a cinch to whip up; you'll be amazed it's under 150 calories per serving.

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Vegan Banana Peanut Butter Ice Cream

If cold and creamy ice cream calls to you after dinner, here's a 150-calorie sweet alternative that's lower in calories, fat, and cholesterol. As an added bonus, it contains over three grams each of fiber and protein per serving.

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Almond Lemon Macaroons

These crunchy cookies are loaded with protein and heart-healthy fats, plus an unforgettable lemon and almond flavor. Enjoy one cookie for 90 calories.

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Vegan Samoas

If you can't shake the desire for the Girl Scouts' chewy, coconut-y gems, here's an egg- and dairy-free alternative to traditional Samoas that's also trans-fat free. One cookie is 114 calories.

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Vegan Almond Butter Cups

Made with almond butter and maple syrup, these almond butter cups are lower in calories, fat, cholesterol, and sugar and tastes more rich and decadent than the original.

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Vegan Thumbprint Cookies

These look almost too perfect to eat! Made with pecans and fruit-sweetened raspberry jam, one scrumptious cookie is 122 calories.

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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies

The chewy oatmeal cookie coupled with the creamy peanut butter and mashed banana mixture makes a perfect flavor combination. Enjoy one of these mini sandwiches for 134 calories.

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Vegan Almond Butter Apricot Bites

Made with raw almonds, raisins, dried apricots, unsweetened shredded coconut, and cinnamon, these squares are chewy, sweet, and only 59 calories per bite.

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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin (and Bean!) Cookies

This is a twist on the classic oatmeal raisin cookie recipe — it has cannellini (white kidney) beans and peanut butter added for protein. Enjoy one cookie for 110 calories.

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Paleo Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters

Made with chocolate, dried cherries, almonds, and coconut shavings, this decadent dessert is only 41 calories per cluster.

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Almond and Coconut Macaroons

Chewy, sweet, and delicious — and not just for Passover — these macaroons are 88 calories apiece.

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Babycake's Thin Mints

The mint chocolate coating snaps with each bite to reveal a thin, flaky chocolate cookie, all for 136 calories per cookie.

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Frozen Yogurt Cupcakes

Each of these mini ice cream cupcakes is only 30 calories but offers three grams of protein. So go ahead and have another, and another, and another!

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Slimmed-Down Brownies

This 125-calorie slimmed-down brownie sheds over 150 calories from traditional recipes. These fluffy squares taste just as sinful — without any guilt.

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Peanut Butter Smudgies

With just three ingredients, you can create peanut butter smudgies, a sweet and satisfying treat that's under 95 calories per serving.

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Vegan and Grain-Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin isn't just for Thanksgiving, and if you're a fan of pumpkin pie, then these cookies are a real treat. Soft, chewy, and only 86 calories per cookie, this recipe is vegan and also grain-free.

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Cinnamon Bun Smoothie

Cinnamon buns are tempting, but one large roll from the mall is a whopping 800 calories, 17 grams of saturated fat, and 59 grams of sugar! If you're craving all the flavors of the classic, then try blending up this cinnamon bun smoothie that's less than a quarter of the calories — 157, to be precise — with hardly any saturated fat whatsoever.

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Chocolate Cream Eggs

Reminiscent of the Cadbury classic, these cute little vegan chocolate eggs are full of smooth vegan cream cheese. At fewer than 30 calories per truffle, you can have five in place of one 150-calorie Cadbury egg.

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3-Ingredient Chocolate Pie

For a creamy, smooth, and vegan-friendly dessert, this three-ingredient chocolate pie takes the cake. The sweetest part of the deal is that it's fewer than 150 calories per slice!

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Vegan Strawberry Fudgsicles

If you remember creamy Fudgsicles from when you were a kid, here's a healthier version made without high-fructose corn syrup, milk, or added sugar — all for under 80 calories.

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